Anyway, why does the SOA think this is useful? I've tended to diagnose the SOA's core institutional problem as being that they try to tackle tasks (in terms of educational and research material) that are poorly suited to the part-time volunteer labor as provided by members. The solutions would be to either maintain a larger full-time staff of actuaries for this work, or to focus on smaller initiatives that can be fully polished even with a smaller time commitment from contributors.

Everything the SOA releases, I kind of think, well I guess that may have sounded like a good idea in committee.